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Waking Up in Middle
Time:
The
Seven Last Years On The Road To 2012
by
Jose Arguelles Ph.D.
We are living in a most
interesting time. From the Mayan perspective and from many
other perspectives: These are the End Times. This is the
time of prophecy. Just about everybody has heard of the date
2012. Most people hear this date and say, “Hmmm…isn’t that
when the Mayan calendar ends? This is the stock answer. The
Mayan calendar doesn’t end in 2012. The Mayan calendar is
based on cycles with cycles within cycles. What happens in
2012 is the ending of a major cycle. For some reason or
other the 2012 date, more than any other date of prophecies
has stuck in people’s minds and imagination. 2012 is a
marker; it’s a wake up call in our DNA. Why is this?
For Maya, 2012 is the
ending of what is usually referred to as the Great Cycle.
The Great Cycle is a 5,125 year cycle that began at the date
13.0.0.0.0 on the Mayan calendar. On the Gregorian/Julian
calendar that date is August 13 B.C. 3113. What happened at
that point? If you look back in your history books you can
find most Western history books say the history of
civilization began about 3100 B.C., this is 13 years off
from the Mayan Long Count which says, “No to be precise
according to your calendar that would be August 13, 3113
B.C.”
The present Kali Yuga
cycle of the Hindus began just 11 years later in 3102 B.C.;
this is supposedly when Lord Krishna disincarnate and then
the Kali Yuga began. Kali Yuga is the final and darkest age.
For the Maya, history did begin at 3113 B.C. The first
dynasty of Egypt was established circa 3100 B.C. The first
city in history was founded circ 3100 B.C. That was the city
of Uruk, from which the name Iraq is derived. Uruk was
founded by seven wise men at the beginning of history in
Mesopotamia. If you look at the history books you will see
that virtually everything we think of as the history of
civilization began at that point and slowly builds up from
there. This is the Babylonian/Mesopotamian origin of
civilization.
Mayans say that this
whole cycle of civilization 5,125 years comes to an end on
the Winter Solstice December 21, 2012 A.D. This is now a
little less that nine years away—that’s not very far away.
Before the first year of
the Third Millennium was over there was a big event of which
everyone is acutely aware. This event was knows as the
911. This was the apocalyptic event to set the tone for the
fact that we are now all on the Road to 2012. All the sign
point to 2012. No one gets to the future without going
through December 21, 2012. What does this mean, the end of
the cycle? What is actually going on right now in the world
that gives us any clue as to why things are happening the
way they are happening now. And who were the ancient Maya
that they knew these things so well?
On December 21, 2012 a
cycle will be complete. A cycle of what the Maya called 13
baktuns between 3113 B.C. and 2012. A baktun is a cycle of
exactly 144,000 days. Thirteen cycles of 144,000 days and
you come to the completion of a cycle. This cycle is what
we call the cycle of history of the cycle of civilization.
This cycle is a very interesting one in the history of the
Earth and the evolution of the solar system and even the
history of the galaxy.
Dec. 21, 2012 also marks
the ending of a larger cycle, a cycle of 26,000 years. This
is a long cycle. There is also a larger cycle than this
that closes on Dec. 21, 2012: a cycle of 104,000 years. All
cycles are coming to a conclusion or a convergent point in
2012.
Today, there are many
prognostications concerning 2012. The number of web sites
about 2012 proliferates, and a growing sense of curiosity,
questioning and even alarm begins to seep into the mass
consciousness regarding this now dramatically impending
date.
In America, cracks in
the façade widen. The catastrophic Katrina demonstrated
that the government cannot be relied upon in case of
emergency. New Orleans stagnates, slowly becoming a
monument to global warming . At the same time, as the
disasters of the last year have set off some kind of alarm
clock whose hands point to 2012, the mindset of the planet
is generally gripped by complacency, fear, lethargy and
often anger.
The yoke of 12:60
materialism grows ever tighter as the edges of its world
erode with every Earth change. Consumerism—and its
complementary factor, exhaustion of natural resources
continue unabated. Cars pour off the Chinese assembly lines
at the rate of 112,000 per day! The Amazon continues to
wither in an unprecedented drought, killing fish and drying
up lagoons, while forest fires rage. And in the Himalayan
foothills of Kashmir and Pakistan, 3.3 million earthquake
refugees slowly succumb to a bitter winter.
Against this backdrop,
the Pentagon, on Rhythmic Seli 2, 11 Serpent made a request
for another 100 billion dollars for war, including a new
stealth bomber. If granted that would boost the Pentagon’s
war budget to one half trillion dollars. It may be asked,
if there are 100 billion more dollars available for war, why
aren’t there 100 billion dollars available for world poverty
and disaster relief?
A country like Japan,
the only Asian member of the original G-7, enjoys a new
prosperity and a mood of smug complacency. Despite a season
of intense typhoons, the Japanese continue to roll along
stylishly as if the world will never end. It has been over
ten year now since the terrorist nerve gas attack in a Tokyo
subway station set off panic and alarm and indelibly marked
the psyche of postmodern Japan. Since the attack was
attributed to a religious sect, the Japanese, fearful of
another cult, have shied away from religion and spiritual
matters in general. This is only to the benefit of their
consumerism, a deepening of their materialism, and a general
closing down of their mind. Following the Gregorian
calendar program has ensured that the Japanese remain ever
more ensnared in the pageantry of materialism, buttressed by
negative fear programming.
For instance, though few
Japanese are Christian, because Japan is hooked on the
Gregorian calendar, Christmas is a main event, not only for
consumers but for urban and commercial designers and
decorators as well. But the symbols have no meaning. It is
all for show and for money.
Though Toyota and Honda
are turning out hybrid cars among their many lines these
days, it doesn’t make crossing Tokyo during midday any
easier. The Japanese are very well-defended, well-dressed
and well-insulated in their island culture, and as a
consequence, they seem quite immune to criticism. As with
all nationalities, their television programs only reinforce
their national ego, while their cell phones keep them
removed from themselves, so how can they or any people so
caught in the cyber sphere really change? Where will it
end?
The Foundation recently
asked for a report from members of PAN Svet on the situation
in Russia, the country that turned the G-7 into the G-8.
Here is what was written in response: In Russia we are now
witnessing what we call capitalization of the whole
country. Unfortunately, almost nothing is left of the best
achievements of socialism: healthcare, education and science
are in a sad state considering low social level and under
financed.
For example, Russia’s
healthcare is the 97th place in the world. The
lowest wages of workers in these areas lead to many
scientists leaving the country with only true devotees left
in science. More than half the country’s research
institutes are closed. In the state education and
healthcare those who stay are of pensionable age, no young
men willing to work there. The number of commercial
healthcare and education organizations has grown, but these
are only affordable to highly paid employees or state
officers. And Universities welcome mostly children of
well-off parents.
The number of suicides
among young men has grown. Television is garbaged with
crazy ads and films of terror, sex and violence. Alas!
Today Russia is considered by experts of global economy
forum as one of the most corrupted countries. A lot of
mafia organizations appeared, and drug mafia increasingly
comes to the country structures that in Soviet times were
all outside the “iron barrier”. In general the agony of
12:60 frequency fully manifests in Russia too, accompanied
by planetary cataclysm, terrorist attacks and tragic
events.
Everybody sees the
handwriting on the wall, but nobody wants to give up what
they have and actually change in their lifestyle, their
mind, their perception of reality. The problem is that,
whether in consumer driven Japan, or “catching up with the
West” Russia, virtually everyone is now thoroughly trapped
in the materialist end game. There appears to be no
escape.
Sustainable development
is the catchword for wanting to change but not wanting to
give up what you’ve got. That is a hard act to pull off.
According to the best analysis, we’ve got ‘til 2035 before
the oil runs out. You just have to contemplate that in 1939
with 2.3 billion humans there were 47 million motor
vehicles. Today with 6.3 billion humans (three times as
many) there are about 775 million motor vehicles –that’s a
sixteen-fold increase. The propagation of the machine far
exceeds that of the humans. And to make the point, consider
the computer. In 1975 there were but 50,000—today there are
almost one billion. That growth has paced the information
revolution which now is the final factor alienating the
human species from itself and nature.
While the Chinese are
fully on the globalization consumer bandwagon, the United
States keeps trying to round up the Islamic world so it too
can experience what Russia is experiencing. But the clash
of civilizations may be just too overwhelming for that.
Witness what has just
occurred in France, another member of the G-7, and also of
the P-5—one of five permanent members of the UN Security
Council because it has the Bomb, is incapable of
assimilating two generations of Muslim and African
immigrants. The country has exploded in the mindless
violence of the dispossessed. Can you really remain a true
Muslim and become globalized? The contradiction may prove
to be too great.
Caught in these various
snares of social-cultural karmic whirlpools, planetary
humanity is experiencing a vertical exponential surge of
population, machines, information, and pollution—and the
temperature just keeps rising.
What goes up must come
down. The sheer weight of all of these factors at the
vertical thrust will reach a breaking point, more than
likely before 2012. Are we prepared for 2012? Hardly, it
would seem. The fact is that every day the world mind
continues in the unconscious grip of the materialist 12:60
Gregorian program it goes deeper into a gridlock of the
will, where voluntary change, a shifting of gears becomes
virtually impossible.
This is Middle Time
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